Lancers for the king
Subtitle: a study of the frontier military system of northern New Spain
By: with a translation of The royal regulations of 1772, by Sidney B. Brindkerhoff and Odie B. Faulk. Foreword by Kieran McCarty.
Contributors: Faulk, Odie B., joint author.; Spain.
Publisher: Arizona Historical Foundation
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Phoenix
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Spain. Ejército -- Regulations; Military bases -- Spain -- Colonies -- America; Southwest, New -- History, Military; Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810
Description: Analyses the role of the presidios built by the Spanish in the Southwest in order to maintain a military presence in the New World, and the reasons for Spain's military failure on the northern frontier, in a volume that includes the text of Mexico's regulatory charter of 1772 in its original Spanish and an English translation.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 119-121.
"Reglamento e instruccion para los presidios que se han de formar en la linea de frontera de la Nueva España. Resuelto por el Rey nuestro señor en cédula de 10 de setiembre de 1772. Mexico, Reimpreso en la Oficina de La Aguila, 1834": p. 11-67 (Spanish and English)